Yurp. I know that we haven't celebrated Thanksgiving yet.... and this craft is for Christmas... but please bear with me. I was bored one night and began playing around with leftover mini craft popsicle sticks. After messing around with them for a bit, I came up with this easy, geometric looking Christmas tree ornament.
It was really easy to make, so if you like the design, the kiddos can certainly help out too. (Ooh. Did you notice the sequins? Bling bling!)
Here's what I did:
Materials:
- Mini Popsicle Sticks (I used 22)
- Scrap paper
- Paint Brush
- Paint (Shades of green and brown)
- Hot glue gun
- Parchment paper
- Sequins
- String or ribbon
Directions:
1. Cover your work area. Paint 18 of your popsicle sticks shades of green. Paint 4 of your popsicle sticks shades of brown. (I only painted the front and the sides of the sticks, but you might want to paint the backs too if your ornament is going to twirl around.)
2. Once your paint dries, begin hot gluing your sticks together. (I made sure to hot glue on top of parchment paper so my glue won't stick to my work surface. Cheapie crapter tip: You can reuse this parchment paper for other project too!) To ensure that my triangles looked the same, I made one triangle first, then traced the corners onto the parchment paper. I then used those corners as guidelines when hot gluing other triangles.)
3. Hot glue your "trunk" sticks on.
4. Hot glue your sequins onto the green triangles' corners.
Smaller versions would like nice as ornaments or strung together as a garland. Right now my bigger tree is just hanging outside of our door, waiting for December.
Happy Wednesday!
